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These forums are a place where you can ask other young people advice on dealing with tough times and share your advice on what has worked for you. Please remember that it does not replace professional advice.

The answer to your question is to be able to find and use distraction and coping tools/techniques to bring you back to the present moment when your mind is stuck on treadmill of worry or negative thoughts. As for resources to help you...

you could start with the threads on grounding and mindfulness.

you could also install some mental health apps on your phone such as smiling minds, or relax melodies

there are also books (there is a thread here on books also) such as "the happiness trap" you could look at.

and if the above do not work there is also the option of getting professional help.

Of course, it also helps to be able to identify what you triggers are to be able to use the tools.

Hope these ideas help you, and if you want, please come back and we can chat some more if you have any questions or....

What would you like to chat about? Keep in mind this is just a forum, so it depends on when people see your posts. But if you want to actually talk with someone there are numbers at the bottom of the page. Beyond blue at 1300 22 4636 or life line on 13 11 44.

I feel worried that something bad might happen tomorrow this day it has affected me the most I’ll tell you what happened.I left my parents house at 7:38 Am to get to school I had some thoughts like this “I know something bad might happen and I was right in English a boy in my class was acting silly then he poked me in the eye I was in shock for a few seconds.Then people in my class began to be noisy .I felt like I was going to vomit for the whole day it wasn’t nice .The boy that stabbed me close to my eye I don’t know if he did it on purpose or not.I wish I could feel better